Notices by Devine Lu Ator (neauoire@merveilles.town), page 2

Animated the Hilbert curve fractal in #uxn. It's fun to watch it go.

@sam is that really a oss specific thing? I just had to do that for a proprietary platform after they didn't believe me their software was crashing.

@wim_v12e I think that the moment you start making programs with it, especially things that are a pain to do in uxntal plain, people will be interested to try it out! I think that will influence the adoption more than a good/bad specs, if you're excited about writing programs with Funktal, others will be too :)

@rek added all idles animations

@akkartik it's kind of surprising how these seemingly big companies fail to allocate resources to support important features. Part of me is convinced that Apple is just 3-4 devs, and a massive PR department.

Many years ago I considered putting Oquonie on the steam store, I gave up because I couldn't navigate the insanity that is the steamworks website.

Today, I thought I should try it again, but I can't figure it out. It's like every other page is a 404, or a blank page that just looks like [Object object]. Utterly unusable. :bloat:

Type checking if expressions
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2023/01/03/type-checking-if-expressions/

Counter-Cloud Infrastructure
https://2023.transmediale.de/en/stream
:permacomputing:

Having the opportunity to re-write Oquonie to uxntal is wonderful, I sometimes have to pinch myself to look back and really understand that I get to spend my time programming a made-up language that maps perfectly to how I reflect about interactive art and design.

@theruran @alcinnz @vertigo @raccoonformality I've made a LOT of example files to learn the NES, might be worth looking into that collection: https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/famicom-cookbook/tree/master/item/examples

So @d6 made this fun terminal emulator in uxn. It can somewhat navigate cmus(I managed to start a track) and almost display my website through lynx!

Potato is a little(20kb) desktop environment for #uxn. It can now also assemble roms from tal files.
http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/potato.html

2023 Year Of The Rabbit
https://chinesenewyear.net/zodiac/rabbit/
🐇

Every operation has to have a mirror image.

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/reversible_computing.html

*cdr is not an allowed operation in this env, but I added it as a helper.

Taking a little break from working on Potato to implement a playground of Henry G. Baker's Reversible Pointer Automata.

https://plover.com/~mjd/misc/hbaker-archive/ReverseGC.html

I think I might go ahead and implement Joy's linear combinators too.

http://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html#linear

Looks like I'm implementing #joy afterall.
http://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html#linear

I've been working on implementing callable words in #uxntal.

Instead of the typical PUSH->POP->JSR sequence each time you want to run a routine, these tokens are not pushing to the stack - they'll run immediately.

They'll be impractical for doing pointer arithmetic, but save 1 byte for every subroutine call, and will save millions of cycles in a project of the size of a text editor or drawing software.

They don't break compatibility with old roms, and make source files a bit more readable.

It seems like reversible mul/div operations on integers invariably need 3 parameters to be reversible. This is breaking my mind a bit.

Before doing your multiplication, you must know the remainder beforehand if you know you're not going to have a resulting whole number.. what

This brings me back to fractions somehow. Is a fraction reduction (6/8 -> 3/4) a loss of entropy?

There's no loss of quantity, but programmatically, a knowledge of the distribution of that value is lost..